Country: Germany

Study Design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time

Participant age range:

• Children / adolescents

• Early adulthood or midlife

• Aging adults

Number of participants at baseline: 11,000

Year of initial enrollment: 1984

Number of data collection waves: 37, data collection ongoing

Measures of well-being:

• Positive psychological well-being (overall / multidimensional)

• Life satisfaction

Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times of well-being was assessed:  Low

Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): Low

Measures of physical health: ​Self-rated / questionnaire-based health

Access information: This dataset is available to all researchers. Researchers must submit an application to access this data. There are no fees required to access this dataset.

Notable Citation: Guven C & Saloumidis R. (2014). Life satisfaction and longevity: longitudinal evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel. German Economic Review, 15(4), 453-472.